Abercrombie River National Park

Abercrombie River National Park
Coordinates: 34 ° 5 ′ 38 ″  S , 149 ° 42 ′ 27 ″  E
Location:	New South Wales , Australia
Specialty:	Eucalyptus forest, casuarina forest
Next city:	Crookwell
Surface:	190 km²
Founding:	December 1995

The Abercrombie River National Park is a national park in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales , 138 km west of Sydney and around 40 km northeast of Crookwell .

The park is a protected area for sparse, still completely original forest in the region of the Blue Mountains . The casuarinas - also known as Australian pines - stand around the lagoons of the three main waterways in the park.

Visitors can camp, fish, hike, swim, and canoe.

The Abercrombie River , Retiro River, and Silent Creek are important habitats for the platypus and the gold-bellied swimming rat . Mountain kangaroos , red-necked wallabies , swamp wallabies and eastern gray giant kangaroos can be found in the eucalyptus forests .

Web links and source

• Official website